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MUSC ranked as one of America’s best MUSC was named by U.S. News & World Report as one of the country’s best hospitals in the treatment of digestive and respiratory disorders. The rankings will be published in the July 25 issue of the magazine that appeared on newsstands July 16.   Mark DeLegge, M.D., DDC director, commented on the fact that this is the 11th consecutive year that MUSC’s Digestive Disease Center (DDC) was named to the list. “Being ranked as one of the best hospitals in the nation is a testimonial to all the hard work and foresight that goes into the DDC,” he said. “People should expect us to grow over the next few years”   Since 1990, U.S. News & World Report has identified medical centers with unique capabilities in one or more areas. This year, the magazine sifted data from 5,462 hospitals to arrive at 173 stellar medical centers in 16 specialty areas.   “What makes our training division such a good one is that we have national and international experts in all pulmonary sub-specialties in the division. We do a lot of clinical and translational research and are published in 70 to 80 manuscripts a year, “said Steven Sahn, M.D., director of MUSC’s Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine. “We are active in all phases of academic life.”   Initial eligibility is determined based on three entry standards: membership in the Council of Teaching Hospitals, affiliation with a medical school, or availability of at least six of 13 advanced medical services. Each specialty had its own eligibility requirements, and had to have seen a specified number of Medicare inpatients with certain conditions, or who underwent certain procedures. The specialty also had to be named among the best facilities in the specialty by at least one physician responding to the latest U.S. News & World Report surveys. Hospitals that met these requirements received a score that assigns equal weight to reputation, mortality, and a group of other care-related factors such as nursing.     Rankings can be viewed online at http://www.usnews.com.     Friday, July 20, 2007 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island Publications at 849-1778, ext. 201.